★★★☆☆ Last year would have been Cornish playwright Nick Darke’s 70th birthday. Sadly, he died in 2005, but his works, particularly his plays produced by Kneehigh Theatre in the 1990s, which chimed so closely with their anti-establishment Kernow roots, have become iconic illustrations of Cornish life, Cornish politics.
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★★★★☆ A lot of effort has gone into the minutiae of the characters and making their travails believable and relatable. Meghan Treadway (Elena) and Jamie Wilkes (Nick) give incredibly naturalised performances, steadily peeling away their unease at this reunion, and oscillating between overexposing their emotions and hastily trying to recover themselves.
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★★★★★ The Stranger on the Bridge triumphs in being a genuinely thrilling theatrical retelling of the story of Jonny Benjamin who was talked out of jumping off Waterloo Bridge by a total stranger
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HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT on 21st May
★★★☆☆ This is a poetic, optimistic and magical story, set in circumstances that are all too grimly real. It tells the story of a man in his thirties, Jimmy, who has lost his job in Newport and who has very little prospect of finding a new one.
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★★★★☆ In Louis de Bernières’ epic tale of love and war set in the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, he seeks to make the social every bit as important as the political history. Within the grand sweep of military operations are the lives of ordinary people caught up . . . .
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★★★★☆ Poison is a thoroughly absorbing two-hander that gradually reveals the inner lives of its protagonists. A man and a woman meet in the reception area of a cemetery. . . .
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